@ihurbain : I just came here to report a potential issue.
As far as I know, frwiki doesn’t use this Lint error-detection system, and I assume no other project does either (who would find a list of millions of errors useful without even knowing what the actual problem for the article is?).
If this system could detect errors that have a real impact on Wikipedia and its readers, it might be useful, but many articles that contain dozens of these so-called errors are perfectly fine.

To be clear, the only thing I want to be changed is the way these errors are detected.

@ihurbain The only thing I want to know is why is this lint error detected, and what is it useful for?

@ihurbain : can you explain me why there are so many errors, what is the real technical problem linked to these errors, and how to solve them easily, millions of times?

@cscott There can be errors with the 'id' parameter of the templates sfn, harv and harvnb, for example if there is a ref that has an id corresponding to two sources (for instance, two books from the same author published on the same year), but as I said above, these templates are not used much (on frwiki: 4000 articles for harv, 71000 for harvnb and 81000 for sfn, on 2.7 million articles).
We have a gadget that detect these errors by the way: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Scripts_et_gadgets/Notices/refErrors

@MSantos On this article for example: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial:LintErrors&wpNamespaceRestrictions=0&titlesearch=Anastasie+%28all%C3%A9gorie%29&exactmatch=1

As this lint error appears 23 million times on enwiki and 8 on frwiki, there are too many false positives to be useful.
I can’t even see what a true positive for this might be, and what it would be useful for.

In T421752#11766903, @Reedy wrote:

Only if you saved them using the save buttons

Is it possible to see old logs ? Where are they saved ?

In T421752#11766761, @Reedy wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User_manual#Logs

There's a skip log already?

@Rjwilmsi : we have https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template_redirects, and 'Apply general fixes' was on when I made the aforementioned edit (I found a bit strange that AWB was adding a template with an English name in fact).

Hello @Rjwilmsi and thank you for your quick answer.

@Rjwilmsi why did you mark this task as resolved when it clearly isn't?

This is a real problem, most people don't use the empty parameter "as expected" : I've removed it on multiple occasions where an empty parameter was used for one image/icon and not the others that were right next to it.

In T350912#9366625, @Xaosflux wrote:

There are use cases for unclickable images, for example ones used as controls/buttons (along with public domain images that don't require attribution).

Maybe your bot isn't listed on the :AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage of this wiki, but I couldn't find it.

I'm the one who raised this problem on wp.fr.

In T347252#9193804, @Reedy wrote:

If you login as the bot in a proper web browser, does anything show up in notifications?

I reopened this task because the problem doesn't seem to be solved.

@JJMC89 : thank you, it worked.

@Aklapper : thank you for your answer, but frankly I don't know, nor do I know how many people are working on tasks, how many tasks are on the list, what priority means, who can change it, etc.
I was just surprised to see this task (that I wrote years ago and that I found back by looking into my MediaWiki contributions) no given a priority yet.

After years, this task haven't been reviewed by anyone?

In T276326#6881124, @Samwilson wrote:

https://svgtranslate.toolforge.org/?uselang=fr

In T128772#2088407, @Rjwilmsi wrote:

OK, the error is from the core .NET XML parsing library, reporting that the XML has unclosed tags (e.g. XML file was truncated), so if that says the XML file is incorrect, then I would trust that, so the XML file is incorrect. Whether it was created incorrect by mediawiki dumps process, or e.g. it got damaged by your machine unzipping it and getting an error, I don't know.

We've not made any recent changes to the AWB database scanner and I can complete a full scan of the larger enwiki dump file (I have November 2015).

One option would be to look at the end of the XML file / the line number in the error and see if there is an obvious issue in the XML (clearly due to XML size need an appropriate tool, maybe tail on Linux command line could handle the file).

Otherwise try another dump file / wait for next month's one.

In T128772#2087862, @Rjwilmsi wrote:

@SyntaxTerror what XML dump file were you using, where did you get it from?